When tapping out an email or pinching and swiping on the iPhone's web browser just doesn't get the job done, and you want to use the full keyboard and screen on your laptop in a Wi-Fi-less place, the best way to put your newly jailbroken iPhone 2.0 to good use is to turn it into a cellphone modem for your laptop.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Things you learn after you turn 21
Five things you learn after you turn 21. Good advice on how not to be a douche bag
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Big X Window Manager Guide [window manager screens]
As promised, today we’ll take a look at the various interesting window managers for the X Window System which aren’t (necessarily) a part of a certain desktop environment (that means Enlightenment DR 17 doesn’t count here people, sorry, please take a look at the desktop environment guide).
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Hacking College Networks
While this may be 1-2-3 for web application programmers, it is quite revealing for those not involved with web application security on a daily basis.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Complete Guide To Getting Laid In Buenos Aires
Want to wet your whistle in Buenos Aires? First, you need to know how the Argentine mind works.
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Exchanging A Defective iPhone 3G Is A Huge Pain In The Butt
Joshua's girlfriend got her iPhone on launch day but quickly discovered that the speaker was broken. She brought it into the Apple store to have it checked out and an employee accidentally dropped it. At that point, Apple told them they'd just replace to the phone. That's where things got complicated.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Anheuser-Busch Sold for $50 Billion
Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc (NYSE:BUD) has agreed to be acquired by rival InBev NV for $49.91 billion in a deal that will create the world's largest brewer.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
The New Mozart: Blind girl plays any song after one listen
A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world. Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can play any song after just one listen.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Crack this secret code
The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab." Inside was a single sheet marked by pen with a bizarre series of hash marks, numbers and alien-looking symbols. No one knew what it was. A joke? A threat? So they posted it online...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
NSA copies and retains ALL internet traffic!!!!!
One man uncovers NSA proving at ATT building - "Secret" room included. LA Times killed the story when they had a chance to uncover this illegal practice.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Ancient 'Dead Sea' Stone Tablet Might Rewrite the Bible
A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew found near the Dead Sea in Jordan that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is raising eyebrows in biblical and archaeological circles.
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8 Ways to Win (or Avoid) a Bar Fight With Limbs Intact
At some point in your life you are likely to find yourself a participant in a bar fight. These altercations occur for various reasons, but can usually be attributed to some drunken chump who couldn't keep his mouth shut, or couldn't handle the fact you just snatched up his lady's digits while he was peter-gazing in the urinal.
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Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone ask
I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't mine. Based on the emails that have appeared in my .Mac mailbox, this was accomplished by sending a one-liner e-mail to Apple.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Do More Than Just Game on Your Xbox 360
Once I bought my 360, however, I've been able to get rid of my home theater PC, my DVD player, and even my cable box, so that my entire entertainment system runs through my Xbox 360. It's convergence at its best. The 360 is not perfect by any means, but it's the best multimedia device I've ever used.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Bend Over Dude, You’re Getting A Dell
Some Dell laptops come with dissabled audio ports, after pressure from the RIAA. Dell will enable them for you for only $99. Bargin.
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How "Hancock" Was Ruined After 10 Years In Development Hell
Hancock isn’t the first movie to suffer from the deteriorating hand of Hollywood’s ass-backwards marketability-over-quality system. Hell, it’s not even the first Will Smith movie. Just last year, the equally bastardized "I Am Legend" met a startlingly similar fate...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Linux Media Center Edition
Controls everything from your TV to your security system using anything from your cell phone to a Wii remote.
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Star Trek + Science + Art [Gallery]
Constructed from ordinary materials such as spools of thread, tightly packed chenille stems, or semi-transparent colored beads, the works in 'Mirror Universe' merge high and low art forms, scientific concepts and TV culture, to present "reality" as a subjective experience vs. an absolute "truth."
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The Twelve Best Parades To Pick Up Hot Chicks
Parades. They're crowded, smelly, and corny… but you can get some incredible tail if you go to the right ones.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Making yourself Dizzy can be a mistake.
These displays of stupidity never turn out good if you really put your heart into it!
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California to Legalize Weed for Everyone
With enough signatures, Californians could be voting to legalize marijuana in the upcoming November election. They need 694,354 signatures by September, 5, 2008. It's totally do-able. Its been over a decade since Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, was passed with over 5 million votes in favor.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Why Italian Girls Are So Hot
A few months back, we explored why Brazilian girls are some of the hottest chicks on the planet. Now we're gonna do the same thing… but this time, for girls from Italy (a country so hot it has MODELS in its parliament).
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Let the Games Begin: The 12th Annual Redneck Olympics
Seed spittin', mud puddle divin', hubcap hurlin', bug zapper spitball, bobbin' for pigs feet . . . the best of Redneck "athletes". Last year's armpit serenade winner played the entire opening theme to "Green Acres". Amazing that over 100,000 people have flocked to this.
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The Viral Video that JC Penney doesn't want you to see!
JC Penney is making headlines this week, but not for the reasons it'd like. An ad that claims to be for JC Penney has been generating attention that most advertising agencies would kill for - it even won an award at Cannes! But it's the content that has JC Penney calling to have the video "removed from the Internet," due to its suggestion of sex.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
How a 730T Ball Kept the 2nd Tallest Building From Falling
The recent Sichuan Earthquake in China was so intense, tremors were felt all the way over in the tallest completed building in the world—the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan—a whole eight minutes after the quake originated. (The title of tallest building period was taken by the Burj Dubai back in May.)
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World of Workcraft
Yes, "the game World of Warcraft characters play when we aren't looking." Continue reading to watch World of Warkraft.
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Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player
Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need. Using the free Windows Media Center plug-in, vmcNetflix, you can turn your Xbox 360 into a Netflix Watch Instantly box.
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Interview with The Man Behind Audiobytes for Autobots
A new mashup album by Audiobytes for Autobots has taken the internet by storm. Released on May 18th, 2008, the new album entitled simply 2.0 is the brainchild of 21 year old Dashiell Driscoll. Recently, Jetcomx’s head writer was lucky enough to chat with the man who has opened for artists such as Dead Prez and the RZA.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Recent Earthquakes caused by "HAARP Earthquake Machine"
Nikola Tesla is arguably the greatest inventive genius of the modern age. That's because he invented most of the technology we depend on every day, like alternating current electricity, radio, x-ray, etc Some people think that many of these are still being expanded upon today for horrific inventions from weather control and "Earthquake Machines"
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George Carlin has died
Legendary comedian George Carlin passed away Sunday night at the age of 71. He will be missed, but never forgotten.
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First "Invisible" Planet Discovered Through Math In 1846
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. (Galileo had recorded it as a fixed star during observations with his small telescope in 1612 and 1613.)
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
LALALA HEY HEY Goodbye Lakers - CELTICS WIN NBA FINALS 2008
The crowd chants the ritual song before Garnett Pierce and Allen take a bow and rejoice their countdown to the championship
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'G-shot', Also Known as the 'Orgasm Jab'
It also raises the G-spot a quarter of an inch in height, making it much easier to find. And, as Caroline can testify, the results are tremendous. 'I have never experienced anything quite like it,' she says. 'I had constant multiple orgasms which went on for hours.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Confessions of a salvia eater
I put the salvia in my freezer and didn't touch it for almost two years. Then I had a free midnight, and it occurred to me to try some.After 20 minutes, I spit the whole megilla into the toilet, put some bhangra on the iPod, lay down on my guest bed, and closed my eyes.Almost immediately, I had visions...
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Diamond Cartel Upset by Lab-Grown Diamonds That Fool Experts
Lab-grown diamonds are now practically indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Scientists and engineers see a world of possibilities; jewelers are less enthusiastic. African warlords have used diamond caches to buy arms and fund rebel movements for decades. Now, with lab-grown diamonds, no one is harmed in the process.
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Holy Bottom Line, Batman!
The diminishing returns of the superhero movie franchise...will TDK reverse this trend?
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Monday, June 16, 2008
The ultimate gadget of 1930s: Jaeger LeCoultre Compass
This compact 35mm camera was one of the most technically advanced gadgets of 1930s. The 1938 advertisement declared Compass the embodiment of scientific system in miniature cameras. "Built like a watch - as simple to use." A finely-machined aluminum bodied camera incorporating a large number of features in a tiny volume.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
New Spoilerific Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
LucasArts has released a new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which has the development team discussing the story behind the game in great detail. This trailer even has something I really wish more trailers had: a spoiler alert. Really, they aren’t kidding.
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Mario, Donkey Kong Decals Really Tie the Room Together
Makers of high quality wall decals Blik has partnered with Nintendo to bring adhesive fun into the lives of adult adolescents and good ol' regular adolescents everywhere with a new trio of officially licensed decorative stickers. Want to make your home office have a Donkey Kong inspired backdrop? You can!
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
8-Year old girl shooting at a Car with a Machine Gun
Video of a bunch of people (including what looks like a 8-yo girl) shooting the shit out of cars and stuff with fully automatic machine guns...the footage is from the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot & Trade Show. "KILL THE CAR is on of the favorite events we have here at OFASTS."
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Don't invite K and H2O to the same party!
Chemicals having a party: sexy carbons, bored noble gases, explosive reactions.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Sun is Dead: Could lack of sunspots start mini ice age?
Strange and powerful phenomena known as sunspots are now all gone. The sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots - a period that coincided with a little ice age on Earth. Could it be happening again?
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How to Keep Your Bike From Being Stolen (PIC)
This bike is going to need some help from Houdini to get out of this predicament.
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60 Minutes goes on tour inside the "Doomsday Seed Vault"
It's located some 700 miles from the North Pole, buried hundreds of feet deep in rock and ice, safe and secure from intruders, natural disasters and even military attack What's inside? Hundreds of millions of seeds from more than 100 countries, all assembled and kept safe to protect the world's fragile food supply. 60 minutes takes a tour.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Warcraft Sequel Lets Gamers Play Character Playing Warcraft
World Of World Of Warcraft's amazing level of detail makes players feel like they are actually in a cramped, dark apartment playing World Of Warcraft.
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Miracle Baby was Born Twice
When Chad and Keri McCartney say their infant daughter, Macie Hope, is born again, they aren’t referring to religion — the month-old miracle baby really was born twice. Returned to womb after life-saving surgery, she arrived 10 weeks later.
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Friday, June 6, 2008
Acoustic 'Baby Got Back' (Skip to 1:15)
Hilarious rendition of 'Baby Got Back.' Unfortunately it doesn't start until 1:15.
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